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Oct 29, 2020, 2:25 AM

Tom Wolfe, Donald Trump, and the Pissing Monkey Presidency

Fiction sometimes defines the reality we find ourselves in. It’s truer now than at any time in memory. Right now it seems like a brew of Bizarro World, the DC Comics black-is-white, bad-is-good invented earth of the 1960s, and...

Aug 20, 2020, 8:11 PM

‘Are you Jewish?’

What happened when 36 male Emirati college students learned their professor was a JEW?

Aug 18, 2020, 1:50 AM

I was the Jewish ‘journalism expert’ at United Arab Emirates University

Jahili fort in Al Ain oasis, United Arab Emirates (iStock)

I was the first Jew any of my students and most others during my time in Al Ain, had ever met. I never had a single negative reaction

Aug 15, 2020, 12:03 AM

Trump’s Gettysburg Address

The Greatest Gettysburg Address. Even better than Lincoln’s! That’s what many people, many many people, tell me. Many people. August 27, 2020, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (Written on the back of a McDonald’s napkin in Sharpie) Reported before it happens by David Eden Four years and seven...

Aug 12, 2020, 8:18 AM

‘Yo Semites!’ Donald Trump’s campaign slogan to win the Semite vote

“Yo Semites!” came the cry from inside the Oval Office. In a nearby anteroom, a group of the president’s top Semites perked up. “Yo Semites! Yo Semites!” “Is Daddy beckoning you?” Ivanka asked, looking directly at Jared. “He doesn’t mean me, of course....

Nov 19, 2016, 10:32 AM

The Jewish Alt-Left and the Devil that is Donald Trump

Bubbling just below the surface of the losing side’s public outrage over the election of Donald J. Trump as president, the American Jewish alt-left is smacking its lips in jubilation because now there is something they can rally against...

Nov 1, 2016, 6:56 AM

The rise and fall of Ari Shavit

The Israeli author's justified undoing sullies all who promoted him and any ideas he espoused, even good ones

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About Me

David Eden is a veteran journalist who was an Emmy Award-winning Managing Editor and Executive Producer at Cleveland's CBS TV station and the former Editor-in-Chief of the Cleveland Free Times. He has worked as a top-level editor, columnist, and critic for the Dallas Times Herald, Detroit News, The Minneapolis Star, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Albuquerque Journal. At the Plain Dealer, he was National & Foreign Editor and Sunday Magazine Editor. His work has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The Hill, Jerusalem Post, and The Times of Israel. He also has had a long career in strategic and crisis communications and has taught journalism at John Carroll University and United Arab Emirates University. David is a graduate of Miami University and earned his M.A. from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.